This blog has been a way to interact with some of you around "subjects" that Aristotle has taught too many of us in the West, even today, to disparage: females, rhetoric, and translation. Much recovery yet to do.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Exceptional and Exceptionalism: Recovery from Sexism Yet to Do

I'm back on this blog today for two reasons. First and foremost, it seems we must all be aware of our ever-needed recovery from sexism, and so you'll pardon me if I point out the perpetual and present problem. Second, I'd like to respond briefly to an honor bestowed on this blog.

First, then.

You may have read that César A. Hidalgo has led M.I.T. in research that "reveals the world's most influential people, born before 1950, using data from all language editions of Wikipedia." Hidalgo declares: "It shows you how the world perceives your own national culture. It's a socio-cultural mirror."

What the research ostensibly has shown is that those who have most exceptionally influenced us and our culture are exclusively men. Here are the "people," the men only, who comprise "the Top 20" (as posted by reporter Nicky Mariam Onti and elsewhere by reporter Kerry Mcdermott):

And which of these men have influenced our world and our places to leave women and females and girls out? Which of these 20 most influential men of all time have put girls down in positions under men and males and boys? Which of these men have silenced the influence of women around them? At this blog, I've tried to show that Aristotle has been a huge early and everlasting influencer in this regard.

Today, this blog received an honor, another distinction. It speaks to influence perhaps, to coming alongside others in the world of blogging to try to recover the creative and created gendered equality that Genesis 1:27 and that Galatians 3:28 speak about.

I want to thank those giving out the badges to be posted for recognizing the purposes of Aristotle's Feminist Subject. And I more want to show that the honor goes not just to men but to women also! For example, in the Exceptional List there are these noted websites that are clearly authored by women:

Fifteen of the One Hundred in the list are clearly women-authored sites. It's an honor, then, to have this blog be awarded with these.

This blog has been a way to interact with some of you around "subjects" that Aristotle has taught too many of us in the West, even today, to disparage: females, rhetoric, and translation. Much recovery yet to do.